Wheat| Wheat the main Rabi crop, has planted on 273.97 lakh hectares.

Wheat the main Rabi crop, has planted on 273.97 lakh hectares against 253.20 lakh hectares during the same period of last year in India. Current sowing trend in wheat has raised expectations of its total acreage exceeding last year’s level of 298.3 lakh hectares. High soil moisture and fall in temperature is favourable for growth of wheat crop.